More than 300 thousand families in Italy are without a roof, still on the waiting list, because of mayors. There are more than 319,000, in fact, households in Italy waiting for social housing, with an average of 12.6 outstanding applications for every 1,000 households. Lombardy leads the ranking with 67,176 pending applications, while Sicily and Emilia-Romagna follow with 37,278 and 29,462 requests, respectively. Bolzano records the highest incidence relative to population, with 22.4 unanswered applications per 1,000 households. In contrast, Valle d'Aosta and Molise have the lowest figures, with 2.7 and 4.3 unanswered applications per 1,000 households, respectively. Moreover, considering that more than half of public housing is managed by municipalities, the responsibility for the public housing deficit falls squarely on city governments. This is according to a report by the Unimpresa Study Center, according to which municipalities in our country hold the majority of public housing properties, with more than 401,800 units or 53.4% of the total. As for the "date of birth", nearly half of Italy's public housing stock, amounting to 752,217 homes, was built before 1980, with a higher concentration between the 1980s, the period of maximum expansion, when 188,000 units were built. After 2010, new housing construction plummeted to 2.2% of the total, a sign of the drastic reduction in public investment.